Christ on Campus®

As youth venture out of the home to college, the Higher Things® campus network helps to continue to serve them by providing faithful resources for campus pastors and others involved in ministering to college students.

The Christ on Campus® program is the campus ministry arm of Higher Things, seeking to help network, and provide resources for those who seek to “Dare to Be Lutheran” at college.

Find a Chapter near you:

Click on a state's name to see the Higher Things® campus ministries in that state.

Arizona

University of Arizona; Pima Community College in Tucson

The Lutheran Student Fellowship, University of Arizona is a Campus Ministry of the local Tucson area congregations of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. Worship, Dinner and Bible Study, and the Apologetics Forum (2nd & 4th Fridays of the month) all meet at the Campus Christian Center, 715 N. Park Ave (just south of Jimmy John's in the Main Gate Square).

CSU-San Marcos; Palomar College in Escondido

Gloria Dei Lutheran Church

Golden West College; UC-Irvine in Huntington Beach

Redeemer Lutheran Church believes, teaches and confesses the Word of God in its truth and purity according to the Unaltered Augsburg Confession and the 1580 Book of Concord, rejoices in the doctrine and practice of the Lutheran Confessions, and worships according to the Lutheran liturgical tradition. Through clear witness and caring service we preach Christ Crucified as God comes to us by Grace Alone, Scripture Alone, Faith Alone, Christ Alone.
We are located in Huntington Beach, just minutes from Golden West College, the beach and the 405 freeway. Look us up on the web or on Facebook (search for "Redeemer Lutheran Church - Huntington Beach, CA")
Peace of Christ be with you.

Our Savior Lutheran Church

San Diego State University; Univ. of San Diego and others in San Diego

Grace welcomes any and all students from San Diego State University and the University of San Diego, as well as the USD Law School, Thomas Jefferson Law School, Cal Western Law School, Grossmont College and Mesa College.

Grace Lutheran Church

San Francisco State University in San Francisco

West Portal Lutheran is located just one mile north of the SFSU campus on the corner of 19th Ave and Sloat Blvd. We currently meet at the Depot in the Cesar Chavez Student Center on Thursdays at 12:15. A free lunch is always provided; all are welcome to bring an appetite and a Bible, so come join us! We also host several fellowship events and retreats throughout the year off-campus. If you're interested in joining us or have questions about our worship schedule; contact the vicar.

Colorado

CC of Aurora; UC at Denver-Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora

Hope Lutheran Church

University of Colorado in Boulder

University Lutheran Chapel is a full-time campus ministry, serving the students, faculty, and staff of the University of Colorado. This ministry is focused upon the gifts of Word and Sacrament that Christ has given to His church.

Connecticut

We are a community church with a weekly outreach that is just beginning. We serve free dinners every Monday. You can volunteer or donate by going to: ctfamilykitchen.org. Our congregation is small, but we have reached out to a community organization who works with us to bring this wonderful service of Gods to our neighborhood.

Faith Lutheran Church

Florida

At Gloria Dei, we would like to support you any way we can. In addition to activities on campus, we extend a cordial invitation to you to join us on Sunday mornings for the Divine Services (8 a.m. or 10:30 a.m.), for Bible Study (9:30 a.m.), or on Wednesday nights for Divine Service at our church. Please contact us if you need a ride to church! We will do our best to provide one for you.

Luther College - Decorah in Fredericksburg

St. Paul's Lutheran Church

University of Iowa in Iowa City

St. Paul's Lutheran Chapel offers many services to the university community including the Sunday Divine Service, Wednesday Night Table Talk, Bible studies, mission trips and service projects, congregational leadership, social activities, and quiet areas for studying or relaxing. At St. Paul's, we believe that since God loved us first, we are to reflect His love in our service to the university community. We are committed to preaching and teaching the Gospel of Jesus in its truth and purity. In all of our activities, the heart and core is always Jesus Christ and him crucified and risen for us!

St. Paul's Lutheran Chapel and University Center

Iowa Wesleyan College, Southeastern CC in Mt. Pleasant

Faith Lutheran Church is located just 4 blocks east of the Iowa Wesleyan campus on Mapleleaf Dr. Faith Lutheran Church is a congregation of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. As such, we are bound by God's Holy Word and the Lutheran Confessions which are true expositions of that Word. We are dedicated to serve the saints and the world with Christ's means of grace - Word and Sacrament - for the forgiveness, life, and salvation of those who receive these Gifts in faith. Each year we welcome a number of Lutheran students from IWC and are blessed to have several IWC staff as faithful members.

Cornell College in Mt. Vernon

St. Paul Lutheran Church

Idaho

Boise State University in Boise

Just three miles from Boise State and the famous blue "smurf turf" of the Broncos, Good Shepherd offers confessional and liturgical worship opportunities on Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings, all focused on Jesus Christ, His Word and Sacraments. You are welcome. For more information, check out our website.

Concordia University Chicago in Chicago

St. John's Lutheran Church

Western Illinois University in Macomb

Serving Western Illinois University, we are a town-gown partnership of the congregations of the Central Illinois District -- including Immanuel Lutheran congregation of Macomb. 8:30am Sunday Service is at our church on East Grant Street, and 11am Service is at our Student Center on North Clay. Pastor Mike Burdick and the students of our ministry will be glad to meet you.

Wittenberg Lutheran Center

Indiana

Indiana University in Bloomington

Through Word & Sacrament ministry, University Lutheran Church at Indiana University proclaims Jesus Christ as the One Hope for a chaotic post-modern world. Made up of 95% undergrad/graduate students, Sunday Divine Service is at the center of our community life. This is augmented by our on-campus location and the daily use of our Lutheran Student Center, which not only houses students in our House Fellow program, but is also the site of various Bible studies, Christ On Campus Weekends, international student outreach, social activities, and service projects. We continually strive to provide students avenues to practice the various vocations they pursue in faith toward God, "and in fervent love toward one another."

Lutheran Student Fellowship at IPFW

Butler University, IUPUI in Indianapolis

St Peter's rejoices in the forgiveness, life, and salvation bestowed by our heavenly Father's grace and mercy in Christ. We receive these eternal gifts each Lord's Day, delighting to use the historic liturgy of the Church. As beggars before our Lord, humbly receiving His gifts, we are joyfully moved to bring other beggars to this feast.
Please contact for more information on growing campus opportunities.

Saint Peter Ev. Lutheran Church

Ball State University & Taylor University in Muncie

"Lutheran Student Fellowship" (LSF) and "Christ on Campus" makeup the full-time LCMS campus ministry at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. We are affiliated with Grace Lutheran Church in Muncie, and supported by the Indiana District, we exist to proclaim the life and gifts of our Lord Jesus Christ by His Word and Sacrament!

First Lutheran Church

Michigan

Concordia University Ann Arbor in Ann Arbor

Founded in 1842 by the first Lutheran missionary to Michigan, St. Thomas Lutheran church is a rural congregation, 1.5 miles down a dirt road. The Lord gathers a flock to worship here from a 30 mile radius in each direction. The congregation is starting a child care center on new property (on a main road) with evening worship once a month. Concordia University students have been frequent guests since Pastor Schulz, prof. at CUAA, was called in 2005. Any and all students are welcome!

Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant

Christ the King Lutheran Chapel

Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie

Saint Barnabas Lutheran Church has served the LCMS students attending Lake Superior State University (Sault Ste. Marie, MI) since 1994.
Students and their friends have become part of the congregation. They participate in the Divine Service, other congregation activities and create relationships with "Sault" parents (who will be there for them in any need), "Sault" grandparents (who, like real grandparents, will offer them unsolicited advice), "Sault" brothers and sisters (to pester and love).
Once a week the "Sault parents" provide a home cooked meal for the students which is followed by Advent/Lents Vespers or a devotional Bible Study.

Mt. Olive Lutheran Church

University of Minnesota, Concordia University St. Paul, Augsburg, St. Thomas, Macalester and other Twin Cities colleges and universities. in Minneapolis

For more than 80 years University Lutheran Chapel has been active proclaiming the Gospel at the University of Minnesota and helping students grow in their faith and in the knowledge of Christ. We enjoy a rich worship life, in-depth Biblical and theological studies, outstanding retreats, and a warm and genuine fellowship with one another. Located adjacent to campus, ULC is easy to get to and worth waking up for.

University Lutheran Chapel

University of Minnesota - Morris in Morris

We meet weekly for ongoing campus catechesis, and see it as critical for the sake of students who need stability in a time when their faith is being severely tested by peers and professors. In fact, Zion has seen providing pastoral care to the campus as a critical reason for its existence. This can be seen in its beginning. The year the school became a university was the year Zion, Horton Township moved to Morris and began a new congregation.
Although it is only a contact congregation, the members seek to become involved with the students and their lives by adopting the ones who are willing and inviting them to get involved in congregational activities. The students have responded to this well. It has been our joy to see them involved in various ways and then watch those former students begin to take leadership positions in the church.

Zion Lutheran Church

Missouri

Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau

According to Article Two (2) of the Constitution of this organization, its mission is to make known and to grow in knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Primarily this has been done in the past and the present through worship services proclaiming the Law and Gospel of the Holy Bible and administrating the Sacraments of Holy Baptism and Holy Communion. Additionally the study of the Triune God through Holy Scripture occurs in Bible Classes and classes instructing students in the Lutheran faith and doctrine.
Secondly, LCH sponsors the Lutheran Student Fellowship which is an organization of university students for fellowship and service activities. The students have participated in such activities as Christmas caroling, Homecoming floats, bowling, artistic projects, meals, and other social gatherings.
The basement of the LCH serves as a Lutheran Student Center for meals, games, and TV viewing as well as Bible study and academic study. A private office for the Pastor also allows private conversation and counseling between him and any student requesting this service.

Washington University in St. Louis in Ladue

Village Lutheran Church

Mississippi

Mississippi University for Women in Columbus

While primarily serving students at the Mississippi University for Women, Our Savior's Lutheran Church also welcomes any students from other nearby colleges or universities that wish to make Our Savior's their home away from home while they are at college.

Grace Lutheran Church

Ontario

Brock University in St. Catherine's

Lutheran Student Fellowship is for all university-aged students who are members of Lutheran Church-Canada (or LCMS) and for anyone interested in the Lutheran Church.
We are supported in our mission by Resurrection Lutheran Church (conveniently located at the base of the Glenridge Brock hill), where the Gospel is proclaimed and the Sacraments are faithfully administered. We encourage you to attend Divine Service at 11:00am and to get involved at Resurrection (or at another LCC parish). Also, all are welcome to attend 10:00am daily chapel at Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary.
Placing our confidence in our Incarnate Lord Jesus who promises to meet us in Word and Sacrament, with boldness we “Dare to be Lutheran” in our campus outreach at Brock University.
We meet each Monday evening at 7pm throughout the academic year at Concordia Lutheran Seminary on Brock's campus. Pastor Kurt Lantz leads us in a Bible study and discussion over a cup of tea (or coffee) and treats.
Next we gather in the chapel for a service of evening prayer, hearing again God’s Word for us, responding with prayer, praise and thanksgiving, and “treasuring up all these things” in our heart (Lk 2:19).
Afterwards we come up with some sort of activity, either according to plan or spontaneously, such as hanging out at someone’s house, going out for a drink or coffee, hitting the bowling lanes, playing games, etc.
Check out Resurrection Lutheran Church: http://www.resurrectionlc.ca/

Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church

Univ. of Pittsburgh, Duquesne, Carnegie-Mellon, and others in Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh's LCMS campus ministry/mission is committed to helping all students and their families grow into and mature in the Lutheran Christian faith through the teachings of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, as well as facilitating understanding, sharing, and friendship among peoples of all cultures and languages on campus and in congregation. We foster a life and a loving community centered around the Gospel, the Scriptures and Sacraments, of Jesus Christ through worship, nurture, outreach, friendship, and service.

South Dakota

University of South Dakota in Vermillion

Concordia Lutheran Church & Student Center

Tennessee

University of Tennessee in Knoxville

With a history of campus ministry at the University of Tennesse dating back to 1968, LCM was adopted and revitalized by First Lutheran Church in 2005 and continues to serve students and the campus community with the truth and love of God in Christ Jesus.

LSF of Vanderbilt

Texas

University of Texas; Concordia University in Austin

Offering excellent liturgical services and Bible studies near the U.T. campus, St. Paul is a vibrant, age-diverse congregation, having its own PK2-8 school which serves the entire Austin area. Many students from the University of Texas at Austin and Concordia University-Texas have become active at St. Paul, enjoying the opportunities of worship, study, fellowship, and service. St. Paul is especially known for its outstanding music program, which includes vocal choirs, wind ensembles, and bell choir, all open to college students during their time in Austin.

University of Utah; Salt Lake City Community College in Salt Lake City

Redeemer Lutheran Church

Virginia

Virginia Military Institute; Washington & Lee in Lexington

Concordia Lutheran Mission is sponsored by Good Shepherd Lutheran Church of Roanoke, VA and seeks to also serve students at the Virginia Military Institute. If you need directions or a ride, please don't hesitate to give us a call.

Wisconsin

Carthage College, UW-Parkside and Gateway Technical College in Kenosha

Messiah Lutheran Church

University of Wisconsin-Platteville in Platteville

God's people gather around Word and Sacrament. Through His gifts, God blesses His people and strengthens them.
In the Sunday Divine Service, devotional services, and through the study of Holy Scripture, God comes to us and speaks His word of life and forgiveness.
Apostles and LSF at UW-Platteville seek to encourage genuine Lutheranism, edify the Christian in faith and life, and grow together in the faith of Him who died and rose again for our salvation.
To Christ be the glory!

Apostles Lutheran Church

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Milwaukee School of Engineering, Marquette University, and Concordia University Wisconsin in Shorewood

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus has long been served by an LCMS campus ministry, beginning with the University Lutheran Chapel across the street from the UWM campus. In 2002, the district transferred the campus ministry to Luther Memorial Chapel, the closest parish to the UWM campus. University students join in the Divine Service and other activities of the parish, as well as having ample space for activities and Bible study in the University Student Center and gymnasium on the Luther Memorial campus. Luther Memorial Chapel is yearly assigned a vicar who works closely with the university students. A part-time student coordinator assists in the transitions between vicars and the organization and administration of the University Student Center. Activities are held both at Luther Memorial Chapel and on the UWM campus. In addition, students from Milwaukee School of Engineering, Marquette University, and Concordia University Wisconsin are encouraged to participate in the activities for university students.

UW - Superior; Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College in Superior

Christ Lutheran Church

Wyoming

University of Wyoming & Wyoming Technical Institute in Laramie

St. Andrew's endeavors to serve college students without compromise in Scriptural teachings in all areas of our life and practice. As a congregation centered around the gift of Christ in Word and Sacrament, we engage in studies on various topics in the Bible, Lutheran teaching and practice, and Lutheran ethics. Plus, we enjoy retreats, recreation, and conversation with a great Lutheran family. Welcome to St. Andrews!
And GO POKES!